Volatile prices of commodities relate to financial risk faced by individuals or economic subjects exposed to them. One way to minimize the impact of change in market price is to use its hedging by futures contracts. The optimal hedge ratio estimation (ratio between units of spot and futures contracts) is the focus of this study. Its objective is to compare hedge ratios based on minimum variance methodology using three methods - OLS, ARCH and GARCH, by measuring their hedging effectiveness using variance and value at risk reduction. The results differ across commodities, however several conclusions can be made. The ARCH-based hedge ratios do not perform significantly worse than the GARCH-based hedge ratios. The same estimation method can be used for assets having similar returns development and a well performing hedge can be expected. Results of hedge ratios of strongly correlated assets estimated by different methods tend to have very similar values to one another and to the related correlation coefficient. More generally, the best performing hedge ratios are those having very similar values to correlation between spot and futures 1-day returns.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:206944 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Paříková, Adéla |
| Contributors | Černý, Michal, Formánek, Tomáš |
| Publisher | Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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